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".........After Notre Dame's 13–7 upset victory over a strong Army team on October 18, 1924, Rice penned what sports journalist Murray Sperber called "the most famous football lede of all-time"
"Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below....."
— Grantland Rice, October 18, 1924......."
 

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